Below is the letter that I wrote to The Independent, which was published online today. Michael McCarthy consistently writes with knowledge and passion on natural history. Would that his knowledge of history were as consistent. His account (13 June ) of the history of the campaign to save the whales was […]
BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight – Segment on Rio+20
Hinkley and Sizewell will cost us £155 billion over 30 years under the CfD
Nuclear power would appear to have acquired the power to destroy logic
Some people worry about nuclear power because they fear the risks to human health from radioactivity. Others are concerned about the morality of leaving a legacy of radioactive wastes that will be dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years. Others again are concerned about the risks of proliferating nuclear weapons […]
Video Blog 2: deploying renewables needs political will
The first of my video blogs: why the UK should not pursue nuclear
Summary of Twitter Q&A with Mark Kenber, CEO The Climate Group
UK Energy Policy Will Fail If Government Persists With Nuclear Fantasies
Tony Juniper, Jonathon Porritt and Charles Secrett and I wrote a letter to the Prime Minister on 12th March warning him that his plans for another generation of nuclear reactors are ill-conceived and doomed to failure. To substantiate the broad arguments advanced in letter and accompanying note to the Prime […]
Nuclear policy: part of the Government’s omnishambles
The collapse of the Government’s nuclear policy is a somewhat overlooked part of its current omnishambles. In part this is because very few of the journalists writing about nuclear power know much about the subject. Most continue to assert that all but one of Britain’s current nuclear power stations will […]